rubenista:Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 161
rubenista:Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens, The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man, 1615In a talk I saw at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, speaker Dr. Elizabeth Honig described how a number of Dutch artists like Rubens and Brueghel had extensive collections of animals, figures, and other individual images called “copia” that they re-used in various ways throughout their works (1). Thus, in ‘paradise’ landscapes like this one, a large number of individual images form a dynamic yet cohesive whole.Dr. Honig mentioned the parrots in particular - look out for the same red and blue bird, seen here in the upper left corner in this work, perched on the left side of Brueghel’s The Garden of Eden with the Fall of Man (1613) and Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden (1615). The same two parrots from this landscape are even visible on the far right side of Brueghel’s The Temptation in the Garden of Eden (1600).1. Elizabeth Honig, “Making Paradise,” (presented at The Art of Peace: Dutch and Flemish paintings at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ new Pavilion for Peace, Montreal, Quebec, March 20–21, 2017). -- source link